Quotes by Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. >>

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence >>

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in >>

Quotations about Lovers

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and de >>

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves fla >>

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. >>

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De